Posts tagged with '100 Candles'

I got the Free Time expansion today and spent all afternoon and evening giving everyone secondary aspirations and trying to figure out their hidden hobby interests.

When I got to Ray, I remembered that I had a certain hacked-to-be-buyable career reward that suited him…

Thought bubble mine, but come on. This is a hydroponic gardening system. It is the Slacker career reward. And much like we all know that what Maxis calls a “bubble blower” is a thinly veiled bong, we all know this thing ain’t for growing radishes.

GOOD NEWS: I finally busted through the horrendous block that has been keeping me from sticking more than a word or two at a time on chapter 8 for the last month or so and wrote for like five hours today with occasional Bejeweled breaks!

BAD NEWS: oh dear God this chapter is going to break 20K words, easy and there is no really good place to split it up agh D:

And now that I have your attention, I would like to take a moment of your time to spread some propaganda information. As you are probably tired of hearing about, I have been following an ARG called The Lost Ring. Well, things have progressed to a point where people are now gathering in meatspace to play the “lost sport” that’s been revealed bit by bit in the story.

In a nutshell: the lost sport involves one person, blindfolded, navigating a labyrinth. The walls of the labyrinth itself are people, who hum to guide the runner along. The tl;dr version is here; if this is relevant to your interests you might also want to see some reports from people who’ve already done it. As the wiki points out, we don’t have all the information about the game itself yet and some of what’s on the rules page there could turn out to be wrong. But there’s enough to start trying it out, which is why I am now spewing propaganda at you because holy crap I want to try this.

Space is not an issue. I live within sight of a huge park with plenty of good spots to lay out at least a 3 or 5 circuit labyrinth. Participation is. To do a proper labyrinth run, you need at least ten people–one runner, one referee, and eight for the wall (although some folks seem to have done it with less). I see one dude on the players’ Google map in Houston and that’s it. This makes me sad.

Even if you aren’t interested in the ARG proper, or hey, even if you don’t live near me, I think this sounds awesome and like a fun thing to try out just for the hell of it.